The [AR] Coliseum
Sunday, September 11, 2005, 01:55 PM - Apt-get Install, Games
From the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent Systems at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo:
In this study, a game environment using augmented reality (AR) technology that enables virtual functions for playing a game using small robots is proposed. Similar to how children can use their imaginations to make a normal room into the air for playing games with toy airplane, we propose a way to embody such imaginations virtually by superimposing computer graphics onto toys in the real world.
Playing with toys such as small robots and vehicles is improved and enhanced by projecting images to the areas corresponding to the actual positions and directions of the toys. In addition, objects are able to express the phenomena of this augmented reality world by controlling actuators according to the results of simulations.
In the environment that we propose, the games are played with small robots and vehicles that can be treated as actual toys of the real world.
How cool is that.
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Sunday, September 11, 2005, 01:09 PM - Apt-get Install
In '89, an ancient Sumerian deity named Zuul razed downtown New York with her avatar, a flaming, Stay-puft Mallowzilla. In related news, the aptly named "Mozilla Foundation" has released Firefox 1.5 Beta, a web browser built on an easily extended, cross-platform application framework called XUL (pronounced "Zuul"). In this article, I will provide insight into how to professionally develop a Firefox Extension with GNU/Linux. For demonstration, I'll develop an application called Stantz.
This article is directed to anybody who wants to extend Firefox. Experience writing HTML, Javascript, and CSS should be all you need to understand XUL. Some knowledge about the Linux command line and the Python programming language are desirable, but not necessary. You may want to play with an Apache web server's configuration, and experience handling a neutron accelerator pack would certainly help. Thankfully, you won't need to build Mozilla and you won't have to compile any C or C++.
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Traceart
Tuesday, September 6, 2005, 11:09 PM - Apt-get Install
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The tracert DOS command is used to trace the network points that join one computer with another computer on the Internet. The journey is determined by IP addresses of destinations, and how many milliseconds it takes to reach them.
Traceart is one of Siggraph's best instalations. See the rest in Hack a Day
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